fishytim
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I was thinking about changing out the crushed coral in my 10 gal hospital tank for some sand. The new sand (not live sand)would not start any kind of cycle would it?
The guy who had the tank before me did not pay to much attention to it and as a result it is dirty. (did not help he had 4 fish in there either). The crushed coral looks HORRIBLE and is infested with diatoms and other undesirable algae.
I have the water under control and stable, added some cured live rock and a clean up crew, but the cc still looks like crap.
I was thinking about draining the water out of the tank into a couple of big buckets, putting the rock and fish in one of them then rinse out the tank and get rid of the coral and replace it with some sand.
Good plan?
The guy who had the tank before me did not pay to much attention to it and as a result it is dirty. (did not help he had 4 fish in there either). The crushed coral looks HORRIBLE and is infested with diatoms and other undesirable algae.
I have the water under control and stable, added some cured live rock and a clean up crew, but the cc still looks like crap.
I was thinking about draining the water out of the tank into a couple of big buckets, putting the rock and fish in one of them then rinse out the tank and get rid of the coral and replace it with some sand.
Good plan?